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Friday, August 1, 2014

Aboriginal children used in medical tests...Canada.

Truth and Reconciliation Commission seeks further documentation on tests
Aboriginal Canadians were not only subjected to nutritional experiments by
the federal government in the 1940s and 1950s but were also used as medical test
subjects, says the chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
In an interview with CBC Radio's All Points West on
Tuesday, Justice Murray Sinclair told host Jo-Ann Roberts that
commission staff has "seen the documents that relate to the experiments that
were conducted in residential schools."
Other documents related to experimentation in aboriginal communities outside
of residential schools have not yet been obtained, Sinclair said.
"We do know that there were research initiatives that were conducted with
regard to medicines that were used ultimately to treat the Canadian population.
Some of those medicines were tested in aboriginal communities and residential
schools before they were utilized publicly."
Sinclair said some of those medicines developed were then withheld from the
same aboriginal children they were originally tested on.
"Some of those medicines which we know were able to work in the general
population, we also have discovered were withheld from children in residential
schools, and we're trying to find the documents which explain that too,"
Sinclair said.
CBC News has not seen the documents in the possession of the commission.
Recent revelations that the Canadian government used at least 1,300
aboriginal children attending residential schools in British Columbia, Alberta,
Ontario and Nova Scotia as test subjects have prompted further calls from
aboriginal groups to pressure the federal government to turn over all
archival documents related to residential schools.

"Our government recognizes that the relationship between Canada and First
Nations has helped shape the country we know today," Aboriginal Affairs Minister
Bernard Valcourt's director of communications Jason MacDonald said Wednesday in
a statement. "While we cannot undo the past, we can learn from it and ensure that those
dark chapters are not repeated."MacDonald said that is why the Conservative government apologized for the
residential school policy and "that is why we continue to focus on the work of
reconciliation, on improving living conditions for First Nations, and on
creating economic opportunities for First Nation communities."Really????? What helped shape the country we have today is the annihilation of multiple nations and it's people, I suggests he visits reservation and see if those dark chapters are gone. Maybe he should live in one for a year, especially the poor ones up north? That way he can see if there is any "improvements."

The commission, according to Sinclair, is in possession of the documents
used by historian Ian Mosby to show that the Canadian government conducted
nutritional experiments on malnourished aboriginal children and adults attending
residential schools during and after the Second World War.

However, the commission has not been able to obtain documents "related to
experimentation that went on in aboriginal communities outside of the
residential school setting."
"We haven't seen those documents," the chair of the commission told CBC
News.
Valcourt's office has said they have turned over 900 documents related to
this to the work by the commission.
On Thursday, Assembly of First Nations Regional Chief Bill Erasmus told CBC
News in a written statement that "the federal documents show that the government
either doesn’t know what’s in its own records or that there may be an effort to
actually suppress information."
Erasmus called on the federal government to provide all relevant documents to
the commission.
"We believe that what’s already been exposed represents only a fraction of
the full, true and tragic history of the residential schools. There are no doubt
more revelations buried in the archives," Erasmus said.

Ottawa ordered to provide all documents

In January, an Ontario Court ordered the Canadian government to turn over
all residential school archival documents to the Truth and Reconciliation
Commission, and while the federal government has expressed a willingness to
comply, Sinclair said "we haven't seen the documents start to flow yet."
The worry now, said Sinclair, is that even with the best of intentions Ottawa
may not have the resources to provide all these archival documents in a timely
manner.
"It's a question of capacity and whether they have sufficient resources and
time to be able to get them to us before our mandate as a commission expires on
July 1, 2014."
Sinclair said that if the federal government is unable to turn over all of
the documents from Library and Archives Canada before the commission's mandate
expires next summer, the commission may have to turn to the courts once
more.
Many of the documents are said to reside with departments outside of
Aboriginal Affairs, such as the Health Department.
But a final report without all the documents would not be a "truthful"
report, according to Sinclair.
"The report itself, in our view, only complies with the mandate if we are
able to write a full and complete history of residential schools and in order to
do that, we need those documents," the chair of the commission told CBC
News.
The residential schools system, which ran from the 1870s until the
1990s, removed about 150,000 aboriginal children from their families and sent
them to church-run schools under a deliberate policy of "civilizing" First
Nations.
Many students were physically, mentally and sexually abused. Some committed
suicide. Mortality rates reached 50 per cent at some schools.
In the 1990s, thousands of victims sued the churches that ran the schools and
the Canadian government.
The $1.9-billion settlement of that suit in 2007 prompted an apology from
Prime Minister Stephen Harper followed by the creation of the commission in
2008.

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The money and the apology doesn't do it, it should have never happened in the first place, this was a crime against humanity under international law, and should be treated as such...
TRADITIONAL leaders, Elder, Clan mothers, Warriors, should get together, assemble all nation of Turtle Island, and once and for all, through OUR justice system, a final judgement on all historical and living person, who committed crimes against the people of this land....Put into a native archive for the future generations, the truth, names and policies of extermination adopted by those who stole the lands.
I don't care if it takes decades, let's put together all those who committed this holocaust of a peaceful people for greed, war and personal profits...Name them all, research what they did, said, and the policy they put forward...
It's time we started to reveal what really happened...not according to their history but ours.
Truth prevents repeats....